China plans to build a safe and environmentally friendly smart-grid system by 2020 as it promotes the spread of clean energy. The nation will build long-distance transmission networks and active power distribution networks to fully use hydro power, wind and solar, according to a ...

Japan’s biggest power utilities, emerging from four years of gloom, have cut electricity rates as cheaper natural gas benefits both the bottom line and customers. The global collapse in energy prices and abundant supplies of liquefied natural gas are a boon to Japan, the ...

The government on Friday approved hiking electricity rates for Kansai Electric Power Co.’s household subscribers by an average of 8.36 percent, effective June 1. Kansai Electric will, however, limit the hikes to 4.62 percent on average for the first four months to lessen the ...

Kansai Electric Power Co. will raise the amount it charges households for electricity by an average of 8.36 percent starting June 1, industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa said Tuesday. Higher imported fossil fuel costs are weighing on the firm’s earnings in the absence of nuclear ...

Osaka Gas Co. is mulling various tieup options ahead of the full liberalization of the retail electricity market in fiscal 2016 and the gas retailing market in 2017, President Takehiro Honjo said in a recent interview. “Tokyo is an attractive market,” Honjo said, expressing ...

Japan is expected to secure the minimum required power supply capacity this summer, the industry ministry said Thursday, meaning electricity supply will be sufficient during the high-demand season even if none of the country’s nuclear reactors resumes operation by then. Although the government is ...

Ruling party lawmakers proposed to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday that Japan generate around 60 percent of its electricity from stable sources, a figure that meets international standards but also suggests continued reliance on nuclear power. The share of “base-load” power sources, which ...